Adriaen van der Donck

Dutch colonist

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Engraved map of New Netherland that appeared in the second edition of Adriaen van der Donck’s Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant (“Description of New Netherland”); it was intended to promote immigration to the colonies.

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acquisition of Yonkers

...the Hudson River, in a hilly region north of the Bronx, New York City. The site, once a major village, Nappeckamack, of the Manhattan Indians, was acquired by the Dutch West India Company in 1639.
Adriaen van der Donck—known as De Jonkheer, a courtesy title roughly equivalent to “young lord,” or “gentleman” (whence, phonetically, Yonkers)—was given a land...